For Lynne Drew
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
And in his simple show he harbours treason
The fox barks not when he would steal a lamb;
No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man
Unsounded yet, and full of deep deceit.
With thanks to:
Dr Paul Nathan, Dr John Griffin, Dr Arden Tomison, Home Office Pathologist Dr Hugh White, Barry Sullivan LL.B, Detective Sergeant Pat Pitts and Detective Constable Phil Diss of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, Chief Superintendent Steve Livings and Detective Sergeant Frank Waghorn of the Avon and Somerset Constabulary (again), the staff of St Ives Archive Centre, Library and Tourist Office, and the people of Cornwall and Key West who remain among the last great individuals in life and provided much of the inspiration for this book.
I am so very grateful to them all.